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SF Weekly Letters

Why Musicians Matter to the Occupy Movement

​It's been over two weeks since the protest in SF's financial district commenced -- prompted by the occupation of Wall Street that started almost a month ago -- and four days since Oakland joined this now apparently worldwide movement. As we all know, Occupy Wall Street was outright ignored by mai ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

​It's been over two weeks since the protest in SF's financial district commenced -- prompted by the occupation of Wall Street that started almost a month ago -- and four days since Oakland joined this now apparently worldwide movement. As we all know, Occupy Wall Street was outright ignored by mai ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco Brings Food, Encouragement to Occupy Oakland

Lupe came to Occupy Oakland​ Okay, so he might be kind of a whiner. But Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco is also down for the cause. Prior to performing last night at the Fox Theater in Oakland, Fiasco dropped by the Occupy Oakland encampment and offered a few words of support and solidarity -- alo ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco: Hip-Hop's Greatest Whiner

It's time for the hallowed halls of hip-hop history to start giving Lupe Fiasco his due respect. Not, you understand, as a purveyor of conscientious rap music bursting with positive-leaning messages; nor for the Chicago-based rapper's ground-breaking work as a foremost collector of limited edition J ... More >>

The Coup's Boots Riley on His Next Record, Hip-Hop for White Kids, and Loving Battlestar Galactia

The Coup's Boots Riley​ It's been almost a decade since 9/11 -- which means (among other things) that it's been 10 years since Boots Riley was seemingly everywhere, coolly responding to outrage over some extremely ill-timed album art depicting explosions at World Trade Center. It's also been f ... More >>

Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne: A First Listen

​ Have we been waiting for this? Who knows -- even big fans of Jay-Z and Yeezy know they never shut up for too long. Big-budget collab albums we know aren't Jay-Z's strong suit (Unfinished Business? Collision Course?). And judging by the awful "H*A*M" (now a bonus cut) and the mesmerizing "Ot ... More >>

The Top 10 Harshest Pitchfork Disses of 2011 -- So Far

Tthere's something undeniably juicy about reading an excoriating review of a new album -- especially on a site like Pitchfork, where a low score carries considerable weight, and where writers are given plenty of space and freedom to carve up the works they don't like. Given the choice, wouldn't you ... More >>

What To Do? Tuesday's Pick: B.o.B. with Lupe Fiasco

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

B.o.B is about to get ridiculously popular

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Going to Coachella vs. the S.F. staycation

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

How the crash will reshape the music industry

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Capitol MC

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Schedule Outside Lands trip with playlists of our favorite artists

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Reports from the Road: Bun B's "II Trill" release party

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Outside Lands adds single day tickets

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Kanye, Jay-Z, Mary J., and Rihanna clamor for diva status

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Kanye West, Rihanna Play HP Pavilion in April

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco hints at music retirement

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Juno, Preggo Porn, Erik Otto, and SF Sketchfest - Your Monday Morning Hangover

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Juno, Preggo Porn, Erik Otto, and SF Sketchfest - Your Monday Morning Hangover

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Juno, Preggo Porn, Erik Otto, and SF Sketchfest - Your Monday Morning Hangover

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Is Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah as Dumb as He Sometimes Acts?

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

Devin The Dude: 'Beer and Rap'-Approved

​Tonight is your chance to see a hip-hop star with a playful self-image shooting his way to the top. As Sean Fennessey wrote in our April 21 issue, B.o.B. is about to get ridiculously huge. Whether the Atlanta rapper is being called Bobby Ray or his abbreviated shortcut of a moniker, the dude is m ... More >>

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As mainstream hip hop stalemates in commodities, underground MCs keep old-school aesthetics alive through art

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